Sarane Alexandrian

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Sarane Alexandrian


Born
in Baghdad, Iraq
June 15, 1927

Died
September 11, 2009

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Sarane Alexandrian (15 June 1927, Baghdad – 11 September 2009, Ivry-sur-Seine) was a French philosopher, essayist, and art critic.

Alexandrian's initiation to Dada and surrealism came in the summer of 1943 when, aged 16, he met Raoul Hausmann who was staying in Peyrat-le-Château near Limoges as a refugee. From 1947, he served as the last secretary of André Breton and became an essential figure of the surrealist current.

Alexandrian was an advocate of the philosophy Nietzsche advanced in The Gay Science (Die fröhliche Wissenschaft). He headed the journal Supérieur Inconnu (a title provided by Breton), which exalts four values shared by the surrealists and Alexandrian: dreams, love, knowledge, and revolution. Catherine Millet is one notable co
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André Breton par lui-même

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Os libertadores do amor

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آشنائی با آثار سالوادور دالی

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“Love is not a reaction, but a carefully nurtured creation.”
Sarane Alexandrian, The Great Work of the Flesh: Sexual Magic East and West